VH-PBH (1)   Piper PA-24-250 Comanche                    (c/n  24-2188)

                                                                   

                                     Formerly VH-PIA and before that VH-CIL, VH-PBH was registered in November 1966.
                                     Mike Madden saw it (above) at Bankstown in 1967 when it was brand new while David
                                     Carter snapped it sitting in a beam of sunlight in a Bankstown hangar in 1970 (below) with
                                     a  new and colorful, although very non-Piper-standard paint job, despite the tail logo.
                                     –PBH was struck off the register on February 15, 1977, as damaged.   At the time it was
                                     based at Whyalla but where it was damaged and the nature of that damage is not known.